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Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

Edmund Burke

The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Alone Force Government Moments Temporary
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Infant Original Planning Thinking
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Crisis Fire Hot Moral Reserve Time
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work

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